So the hatemail dubbed me THE.... Sodomite Hal Duncan!! (sic) So I will wear that with pride, cuntfuckers. It's like The Outlaw Josie Wales only better, right? I mean, did he have a fully capitalised THE, an extra-long dramatic pause, and two exclamation marks? No, he did not. Chickenshit.

Of course, it's a mark of the problem we're dealing with when it's a (massive crowd-drawing) success just to get a seat on the bus -- at the front of it even! -- on the proviso that one is straight or dead by the end.

Still, one thing I'll say for Hollywood is that at least it's advanced from that, right? I mean, we were all wowed when Hollywood gave us the (massive crowd-drawing) success of Brokeback Mountain where Jack... um... dies and the surviving Ennis is... um... "a bit more toward the straight side of being bisexual."